Current Issues in Climate Research: Proceedings of the EC Climatology Programme Symposium, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2–5 October 1984

Opening address.- Rapporteur’s Reports.- Palaeoclimate in the E.C. climate programme.- Climate modelling.- Anthropogenic climate perturbations.- Impact of climate and climate variations on European resources.- I: Reconstitution of Past Climate.- The impact on Europe of large-scale climatic changes: the onset of glaciation and the last deglaciation.- Climatic history from ice core studies in Greenland — Data correction procedures.- Air-Sea interaction during the last 100 years and time scales of climatic fluctuations.- Modelling the astronomical theory of paleoclimates in the time and frequency domain — An example of the relationship between long term and short term climate changes.- Climate reconstruction using historical sources.- Stages of climatic change from full glacial to holocene in northwest Spain, southern France and Italy: a comparison of the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean basin.- Paleoclimatic reconstruction in Belgium and in Greece based on Quaternary lithostratigraphic sequences.- II: Climate Modelling.- Evidence of bimodality in the statistics of northern hemisphere circulation.- Simulation of European climate with an atmospheric general circulation model.- Modelling the impact of soil properties on European climate.- Interactive ocean-atmosphere models for climate forecasting.- Climate modelling activities at the Max-Planck-Institute of meteorology, Hamburg.- Ocean modelling in Cambridge.- Subpolar circulation, deep water formation and air-sea-ice interactions in Labrador and Greenland seas.- Development of an economical soil model for climate simulation.- III: Anthropogenic Climate Perturbations.- On modelling the effects of CO2 on climate.- CO2 and climate: Information from Antarctic ice core studies.- Atmospheric CO2 concentration insubantarctic countries.- The influence of man-made SO2, and particle emission on the global aerosol concentration and the optical properties of the atmosphere.- IV: Climatic Impacts.- Socio-economic impacts of a climatic change due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 content.- The use of crop models in assessing likely effects of variation in climate.- The effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels on the growth of crop plants: an attempt to predict the consequences for grassland and maize production in Europe.- Agroclimatic classification of central Italy.- V: General Topics.- World climate research programme, plan and implementation.- CO2 programme of US department of energy.- Satellite climatology — Study of the earth radiation budget from in flight ultrasensitive accelerometer techniques.- Measurement of the radiation pressures by accelerometry: a new way to the determination of the earth radiation budget — Result obtained with CASTOR/CACTUS experiment.- List of Participants.- List of Authors.